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Hey, I never noticed that before....

I'm pretty sure that T'Pol's acting Captains Log at the end of the Xindi crisis stated a wrong Star Date, alluding to 2152, when in actual fact it was 2154, or was I imagining things ?

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I realis that this is the actual year, and not a Star Date, but still wrong nevertheless.
 
Well gentlemen it's just a television programme and that's all it should ever be! That's the consensus on here when you quote a reason for this or that or you don't accept this or that! :thumbdown:
JB
 
Well . . . it just got to be an overused trope. And TOS had so so so so so so many great ideas, such great characters, and such wonderful dialogue, writing, plotting, and acting. It just seems like we lost out on maybe 4 or 5 episodes because the writers felt the need to neutralize the sheer power of the Enterprise (always a recurring problem) and kept coming up with the same answers - omnipotent aliens. I mean, just off the top of my head:

Thasians
Trelane and Parents (who were maybe Qs)
Metrons
Organians
The Providers (GOT)
The Excalbians
The Melkot/Melkotians

I think I missed several. And even Vaal and Landru, while decidedly not all-powerful, found a way to take the Enterprise out of action by presenting it with an existential threat.

I don't find many flaws with TOS. But I wish they had found better ways to write around the power of the Enterprise. Every episode where the phasers/communicators/tricorders actually work and the Enterprise isn't captured (or the capture is portrayed realistically) is a such a pleasure.

I know what you're getting at but it's not as bad as you think, Phase!
The Thasians=Godlike as such but not enough to transmit themselves through space without a ship!
Trelane and parents=Godlike indeed and able to put an end to their child's games with a whim!
Metrons=Possibly Godlike, although they may still have humanoid forms!
Organians=Godlike and the closest we get to a real God!
Apollo and Zeus=A race of space travellers with great powers who could not resist being worshipped!
The Providers=A race of space travellers who saved many humanoid species in danger of extinction but as far as we know not Godlike!
The Melkotions=A zenophobic race of odd looking creatures with a superior technology but not Godlike!
The Excalbians=Basically a race of creatures that may have evolved from sentient rocks! Curious and possibly hostile but in no way Godlike!
So it's only in the earlier part of the series that we encounter Godlike aliens and with Gary Mitchell as well it only proves that he like they had Goddish powers and was as far removed from that concept as a man is to a microscopic life form!
JB
 
I know what you're getting at but it's not as bad as you think, Phase!
The Thasians=Godlike as such but not enough to transmit themselves through space without a ship!
Trelane and parents=Godlike indeed and able to put an end to their child's games with a whim!
Metrons=Possibly Godlike, although they may still have humanoid forms!
Organians=Godlike and the closest we get to a real God!
Apollo and Zeus=A race of space travellers with great powers who could not resist being worshipped!
The Providers=A race of space travellers who saved many humanoid species in danger of extinction but as far as we know not Godlike!
The Melkotions=A zenophobic race of odd looking creatures with a superior technology but not Godlike!
The Excalbians=Basically a race of creatures that may have evolved from sentient rocks! Curious and possibly hostile but in no way Godlike!
So it's only in the earlier part of the series that we encounter Godlike aliens and with Gary Mitchell as well it only proves that he like they had Goddish powers and was as far removed from that concept as a man is to a microscopic life form!
JB
I made an apple tree after all.
 
You might have thought it but you were disembodied intelligences imprisoned in glowing globes for half a million years or more! What was it really like, Henoch? :shrug:
JB
Real boring. No hands, you know. Sargon first thinks its a good idea to become a glowing globe on a shelf. Then, after having to listen to him babbling on and on and on for 500,000 years, do you blame me for wanting to kill him and steal his wife?
 
And a good job, too, Mr. Mitchell.

I'm wondering why Sargon, Thalassa and myself was left off the list. He thought ourselves as gods.

I should have included you and your buddies, right on. :bolian:

Oh, and Bele and Lokai are immune to phaser fire and (at least Bele) can control the Enterprise mentally.

JB is right, though - for an overused trope, they actually did find ways to make it interesting repeatedly. :)
 
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